A lot of campuses have off-campus housing that has also been shut down. 50% of students live on-campus at my school. The rest live in apartments the university owns/has contracts with, or at home nearby. That’s still thousands of people moved home.
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Replying to @StrawberryFranz @ElijahC0bb
Thank you. So have all these students been evicted? Have those without families to stay with been made homeless?
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Berkley insist that nobody will be forced out of campus accommodation. Are they lying?pic.twitter.com/M8vV00kaQl
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yeah you won't be forced out. Most campuses will tell you that. you can live there until the semester ends. but a lot of times, you won't get a refund on your housing, and you won't be able to use your meal plan, and you won't have access to your actual classroom.
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That's the same in the UK and it sucks. But surely it's a better deal than returning to a genuinely unsafe home with abusive parents?
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Replying to @LilyLilyMaynard @StrawberryFranz and
You're making it a black and white issue, like the only way someone could be worried about their parents reaction to their coming out is if they've already been physically assaulted by them (so you can then argue they should've already gone to the police)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LilyLilyMaynard and
Of course, Lily is an "ROGD mom", so she has a deep emotional investment in this narrative - she needs to believe that the vast majority of all parents are fundamentally decent and should not be questioned by meddling outsiders And the exceptions are obvious monsters
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LilyLilyMaynard and
It's always there, but this round of attacks really highlights how terf arguments rely on the idea that A) abusive parents don't really exist, and B) if they do, they're generally fine with their kids being queer. (Also, all parents draw a sharp line between "gay" and "trans".)
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Replying to @a_useless_ham @LilyLilyMaynard and
"ROGD parents" in particular seem hugely driven by this emotional psychological need to argue their personal shock and horror at their kids' transition isn't bigotry but is the rational reaction of any decent human being
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They're ultra-sensitive about being compared to homophobic old people even though it's a glaringly obvious comparison, and even though those old people could make the exact same damn emotional appeal to former coolness ("Well in MY day we listened to David Bowie")
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